Matisyahu's Blog

I’ve tidied up my blog by making sure that all the posts I have made have a title. In the past I used to use a blogging client but these days the web app for WordPress is powerful enough to replace a native application. I also deleted all blog posts before 2020, nothing of any value was lost plus most of it out of date anyway.

There is a rumour that Meta will be launching Threads (a Twitter alternative) on Thursday (link) which will make for interesting viewing as high profile users that use both Instagram and Twitter decide to delete their Twitter account because why bother with a platform with a few hundred million monthly active users when Meta has 3.74 billion active monthly users. Many of the government departments and emergency agencies also use both platforms and might also leave given that Threads is a good enough drop in replacement then add on to that the third party social media management services that’ll be upgraded to handle Threads, I wouldn’t be surprised if Threads ends up speeding up the demise of Twitter. So Twitter is falling apart and Threads is going to drop in as a replacement – I’ll make sure I have some freshly popped popcorn and a front row seat for everything to unravel.

I’ve been looking through what Chrome 115 has in store (link) and Topics API is being enabled by default so it’ll be interesting to see how quickly it is adopted by developers. For me, I have setup Chrome to reject third party cookies so I’m already a fair way of the way there already. There are also other APIs being made available particularly regarding protecting sensitive information regarding end users which serve as a much larger tapestry of functionality being added which will try to balance up being able to protect user privacy while also also ensuring that when ads are shown they’re relevant to the end user.

WordPress has delivered Mastodon integration:

And based on what we know about threads, it should be possible to post to Instagram threads timeline as well by using the @username@threads.net handle. As to whether I join Instagram and start using Threads? I’ll sit back and see how things turn out.